My Tax Day Didn't Go Too Well - Car Problems & Non Exciting Life Stuff / Elvis St Cloud House
Not every day goes according to planned
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hidden mickey
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well it's kind of kind of upside down a
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little bit i'm at the lakefront here
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today's adventure begins
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celebration florida where there are
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plenty of
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seats looking out across
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well it did start yes and oh there's
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always
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some sort of noise that follows me
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around
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the leaf blower is out in full effect
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you see the celebration theater over
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there
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the sun is now picking up current time
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about 8 30 a.m
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the hotel right over there and
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welcome everyone adam where's it at
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there it is
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piping hot caffeinated beverage today is
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going to be
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an uneventful as far as entertainment
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goes
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or fun goes i have some responsibilities
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to take care of
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meaning on friday i
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did my taxes i have and i have
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someone take care of that a tax preparer
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because it is very confusing i always
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end up owing
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some money and i figured heck it have
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someone else do it that way i don't make
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a mistake and then later in the year
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have to
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retrace my steps etc etc
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the banks were not open on saturday or
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sunday at least at an appropriate time
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frame for me to take care of what i
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traditionally do
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which is go to saint cloud florida go to
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my bank
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get a cashier's check next day
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deliver it to the irs
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and it's all said and done so that is
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what i'm going to do today as of the
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current recording of this it is
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monday morning about 8 30.
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ooh i thought i thought it was gonna be
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piping hot but once i got past the
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cool lid it's a little scorching
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it was pretty neat earlier before i
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walked over
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to the coffee stand there was a little
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bit of steam
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emitting off of the lake here but the
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steam has kind of subsided a little bit
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last evening late at night i walked
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and could hear a lot of alligators
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they were out there's a lot of
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alligators in here and
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it's not nowhere near summer in fact
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spring hasn't really properly reared its
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head yet but some of the nighttime
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bugs are starting to are starting to pop
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out so
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oh is that a gator right there over
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or maybe just a stick i guess it's a
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stick
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so i'm gonna drive down highway 192 go
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to sign cloud i also need
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to get some repairs on my car possibly
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some new tires and i have a little
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issue with a wheel bearing
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i think that's what it is not not too
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exciting but i'm going to document it
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either way that's what i do inviting you
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to join me
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if you're interested shall you i am
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interested to see if this
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coffee shop ever reopens they have the
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cardboard papering across the door that
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would be another place to
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to get a beverage and you can see some
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of the maintenance out
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taking care of things oh they're doing a
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little repair work there up there on
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that little partition
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as well yeah market street
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reminds me so much of main street usa
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doesn't it
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in fact there is a rather large clock
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here that
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summons or shows the time frame
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eight 24.
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give or take a moment
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market square right up here with the
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fountain do love the architecture
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through here look at this
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wow
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fantastic as well as this
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it's like i'm living in the truman show
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truman show vibes like this post office
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i could mail off everything at that post
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office but i'm choosing not to
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oh hello squirrel i'm gonna go to the
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one in saint cloud so what i've always
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done the last few years
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and someone has left the little
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information
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pamphlet on what's happening in town
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right there oh the fountain's not even
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on yet
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interesting this post office
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right over here i love it look at that
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little
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sunburst all right i got to get my car i
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got things to do
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i'm getting pre-occupied i'm getting
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distracted
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or i can mail right here look at this i
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never noticed this
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there's a mailbox here as well if you
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don't want to walk in there
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but i'm going down the sign cloud let me
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get out of here if you listen closely
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you can hear what i'm being told a
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friend of mine who's a mechanic
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looked at my car the other day said that
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it's a front
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wheel bearing that needs replaced you
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can hear the road noise is very very
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loud has been for a few months
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kind of makes the whole front of the car
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rattle just a little bit
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not too much nothing too intense it's
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not a
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anything dangerous it does need to be
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fixed
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before it starts getting worse so i'm
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gonna add that in today
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as well yeah you hear it
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maybe you can hear it it's there this is
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what it sounds like at 35 miles an hour
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just to give an example
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truthfully i don't know if it resonates
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through
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the the filming and the camera
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but nonetheless it's getting fixed today
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it's on the list
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as i slow down it gets a little louder
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hear it
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it's more irritating than anything
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back in the day when i worked retail for
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example this used to be a kmart
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super k they called it which was kind of
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their version of a super walmart
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that was called a big k it's a regular
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kmart then a switch to a big guy
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it has now been transformed into
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something different
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but back then when i would you know it
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was a traditional
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type of job with a time card and a time
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clock
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they would take out you know 20 percent
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22 18
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i can't remember exactly what it was but
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at the end of the year i would get a
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little bit of money back
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but now that i'm self-employed it's it's
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quite different
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i've been owing for i don't know five or
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six years now
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every year i have to pay in as opposed
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to those days where
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they took out the money i have to put
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aside
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on my own accord it used to be the
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garden center
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over there the only major advice i could
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give for anyone that's kind of doing
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well not only what i am doing or you're
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you know on this platform or doing
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anything that's like self-employment
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that they are not pulling out a certain
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percentage a certain amount of money
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is start a separate savings account even
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if you have a regular savings and a
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regular checking
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or if you don't even use a bank even if
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you have something in you know
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tucked away in like a can somewhere have
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a separate can
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or savings account other than the the
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regular ones
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and put aside about 25 to 30 percent
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of everything all your income that you
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make each month each year
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put it in there so when it's time for
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uncle sam
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to reach in his little paws and pull it
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out
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you're prepared for it and you might
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even get a little bit back
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after that but if not you are ready
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that would be that would be something i
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learned a few years ago
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four three four five years ago or so i
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was not expecting
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to have to pay as much and it really
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kind of set me back just a little bit so
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now i have prepared myself
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and i just i don't want to say i look
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forward to it but i
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i am ready for that day and that day
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is is today that i have to mail off a
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cashier's check
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it's not pleasant but at least i know
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i'm set
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so keep that in mind if you're if you're
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doing this
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the total of what i'm gonna owe or what
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i do owe is
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in this little manila envelope
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and also you can always get someone else
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if you don't want to do
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the preparation yourself get someone
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else to do it for you there are plenty
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of people out there
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who that's their business that's what i
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do and they have compiled it all right
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here i take the invoice
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get a cashier's check put it in an
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envelope next day
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overnight it get the
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the routing number or the delivery
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confirmation
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and i'm good to go and wait till next
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year
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it's kind of almost like when it's when
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it's completed it's almost like ah
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oh yeah i could i could
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a little fresh air for another year or
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so
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and part of the reason i waited till now
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till today to do this is because i'll
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have a little bit
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extra money left over
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to fix the car so i just kind of doing
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it all the same day
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taking it from that savings account this
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is the bank i
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started my very first account at
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and had it ever since so just kind of a
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tradition to
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finish my taxes here it's located in
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saint cloud next to super walmart
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all right going in taking care of this
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heading over to the post office now and
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i've always always wanted to know why
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the chicken crossed the road but why did
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the goose
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stop in the middle of the road excuse me
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if you if you don't mind
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uncle sam is waiting i've already got
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part one of what i needed
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i'm just waiting for you to yeah finish
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her excuse me sir
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excuse me
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you gonna move
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you're not moving i'm gonna try to go
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around you
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i'm gonna go around you stay right there
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don't move
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the final step step one was meet with a
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tax preparer step two is go to the bank
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step three deliver it
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shipping it from the post office here
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almost completed
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this brings back some memories back in
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my ebay
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selling days i used to ship quite a few
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things out of there
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spent a lot of time in line mailing
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things out to those who purchased items
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used to go to thrift stores pawn shops
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and garage sales
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get vintage items put them on ebay start
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the auction
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and then you know people would purchase
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them and whatever the final completed
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auction price i started everything at a
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dollar and just wherever it went from
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that would be that would be the the
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total and then show up here
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mail it out that was before i started
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doing you know videos and whatnot or
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kind of at
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the threshold of that i haven't done
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ebay in a heck of a long time but
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i spent a lot of time in here not not
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sending off
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tax forms and money to the irs but
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products to people who purchase them ah
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the ebay days
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bringing back some memories here inside
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cloud completed
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it is now in the mail or going out soon
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and because i'm a florida resident
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it is shipped to this address in
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charlotte north carolina
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it was 23 dollars to have it overnighted
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with a delivery confirmation and the
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number that i can check by tomorrow at
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noon
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i will be able to go online and see if
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it was delivered
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which should it should be fine sending a
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cashier's check through the mail not
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exactly my favorite thing to do because
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it's difficult to trace that's why i do
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the tracking
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just always have and always will corner
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of pine lake drive
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and sequoia circle
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elvis presley king of rock and roll
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a few years before his passing was very
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interested
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in and put an offer on the home
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at the end of this circle down at the
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end that's right
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true story and as the rumors go
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either the city or the homeowners
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association
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did not like some of the additions that
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he was going to add on to it
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including a movie theater on the side
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outdoors
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where he was going to invite his friends
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over and have some little shindigs
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and parties so he decided heck it
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i'm going to not move to saint cloud
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florida
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but it was very close to happening and
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this here
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is that home
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pretty dang cool the king of rock and
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roll
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could have been a floridian saint cloud
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this cul-de-sac i can almost picture it
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it looks very
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very similar to his his tastes and his
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style with
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a pool over on the side the circle
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driveway that goes around
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the back entrance pretty expansive kind
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of tucked away in the little
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nooks and crannies of this cul-de-sac it
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has certainly been
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quite a day throughout the course of the
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afternoon
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into the evening i had
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some experiences that you know not not
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everything has to be documented
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on video but did want to end this
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episode
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just a little information did not get
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the car fixed
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that never that never came to fruition
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other things
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when you start a day you never really
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know how how it's going to end
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well it's ending very wonderfully but
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the mid portion
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of the day i kind of had a little
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threw me for threw me for a quick little
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confusion
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thankfully though i can report made it
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and sometimes the stress
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of problems you know when i started off
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this morning from here i thought this is
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going to be a non-fun and not a
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non-enjoyable
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type of day and little did i know
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that was going to continue throughout
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the course of the hours
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but it all worked out nothing that was
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too intense
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just not every not everything goes
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according to plan
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that's really the best the best that i
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can say
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but it all worked out tomorrow's another
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day
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and life is good uncle sam
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has been rectified he has been satisfied
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he has been paid in
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full and for that i am grateful
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so i got one thing accomplished even
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though did not get the car fixed
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never made it to that point never made
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it to that juncture there were
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life had other things that wanted to
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throw in my way
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but here i am stating that everything is
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good